#gem

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#exile #migration #sorrow #experience

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#certain #certain kinds #go #i #installation

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers. ↗

— James Larkin

#arrangement #carried #degree #employers #gain

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#blood #god #impending #jesus #john

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

#arrangement #basic #basic principles #corresponding #decisive

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#encouragement #just #much #really #run

I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business] ↗

— Marcus Samuelsson

#restaurants #business

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

Sometimes, if she was afraid, she’d take all her fear and gather it up and turn it into anger. Anger didn’t paralyze the way fear did. It was the opposite of being helpless. But it was dangerous too, because you could end up being angry all the time. ↗

— Dan Krokos

#conquer-fear #anger

St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city. ↗

— Valentina Matviyenko

#culture #european #gem #most #petersburg